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1. Celie, the narrator and the protagonist of the story, is a young African American girl who lives in the south. She is poor, as well as uneducated. She lives with her step father, Alphonso (Pa), her mother, and her younger brothers and sisters. Celie began writing letters to God to escape the brutality and pain her step father causes her endure on a daily basis. Celie tries her best to keep her younger sister, Nettie, away from the abuse of their father by persuading Nettie to marry a middle aged

The main theme of the book “The Help” is that racism against the whites and blacks were a big issue back in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960’s, black people were denied the right to an education and such, and were either made up as housekeepers and slaves to the white people. In the book, the white people would call the blacks vulgar names such as, dirty, worthless and other words that should not be mentioned. As you can tell, the whites showed how more privileged they were rather than the blacks

This paper presents an IPA of an extract taken from ‘Blackout’ by Sarah Hepola. Sarah gives an account of her experience with alcoholism. The two themes to be discussed are Sobriety: “In a black cloud” and Disillusion: “I was someone else in them”. Sobriety: “In a black cloud” This theme consists of Sarah’s inner struggle with sobriety referring to it as being “in a black cloud”. The extract explains Sarah’s journey from glamourizing alcoholism to choosing sobriety. “I’ve never liked the part of

At the beginning of the play Prometheus, a Titan, enters escorted by Might and Violence followed by the god of fire Hephaestus. Violence is silent for the entire duration of this scene but Might is very disdainful towards Prometheus and states under Zeus’s command Prometheus is to be chained to a rock in the Caucasus because he disobeyed the will of Zeus and stole fire from Mount Olympus and gave it to humanity. Might is pretty cruel to Prometheus but Hephaestus is reluctant to chain Prometheus

The story starts in a dystopian society where sun flares have struck the Earth forever changing the climate and lowering the population and food supply. The character Mark resides with his girlfriend Trina his three friends Darnell, Misty, and Toad with two war veterans Alec and Lana. Its starts off as a normal day for Mark. He wakes up early when it is still cool and goes outside to visit Trina, and he hears the sound of an engine overhead. Mark and Trina rush over to the Berg(A blimp, It was the

The novel takes the leaders deep into the Gogol Gangulis' immigrant experience: their puzzlement at and isolation from a non native culture, their loss of connection with families in India,where happenings occur different from them; their seeking old links in a circle ofother Bengali immigrants, several of whom become substitute aunts and uncles to Gogol and his sister, Sonia. An ongoing struggle is showed it as first generation immigrants and their children struggle to find their places and adjust

Deadpool Brings His Swords, Guns, and Hilarious Insults on Amazon Marvel’s “Deadpool” makes fans love and hate this anti-hero, as the comic book character fights, and insults, his way to get his love back after an experiment to make him “super” goes horribly wrong. Ryan Reynolds portrays Wade Wilson, also known as Deadpool, a mercenary that takes jobs in New York City to get rid of bad guys by requests from clients. He meets an escort named Vanessa at a local bar, and their one-night stand turns

One of my best friends recently moved to The United States from India and his name is Shubham. My group of friends love to go out and eat on a day to day basis and Shubham enjoys tagging along when we go eat so that he can experience the many varieties American food has to offer. One day my group of friends decided to go to a very fancy restaurant and get some food, so I called Shubham and brought him along. As we pulled up to this amazing four star restaurant, I smelled the pork and lamb in the

Vikings The "Vikings" is a drama tv series. It's about a farmer name Ragnar Lothbrok west to raid city's and towns for gold. He ask his earl Haraoldson to raid west when the ice breaks but the earl would not let him. The earl said "it's my ships and I am earl." Even though the earl told him to not sail west, he did so anyway and bought his own ship from his friend Floki who was a ship maker. Ragnar got his own crew to venture out to the west with him. No one has ever sailed west, it was said there's

A subtle exploration of the subliminal human mind and identity, Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona is a visual delight. The film is about two women, Elisabeth Vogler and Sister Alma, who personas fuse together and develop through speech, silence and expression. While Elisabeth, an actress makes an aesthetic choice to be silent, Sister Alma attempts to break the actress’s silence her by talking about herself. For Elisabeth, her silence opens the door to enter a new reality where she can escape from the